Creating Midlife Calm: Coping Skills for Stress & Anxiety in Family, Work & Relationships
Forget the midlife crisis—how about creating midlife calm? The stress and anxiety of this life stage can be overwhelming, draining your energy, and making it hard to enjoy what should be the best years of your life. This podcast is your guide to easing midlife anxiety and discovering a deeper sense of calm.
Discover how to:
- Be happier, more present, and more effective at home and work.
- Transform stress and anxiety into powerful tools that ignite your inner energy, helping you gain clarity and confidently meet your needs.
- Cultivate calm and enjoyment by creating a positive internal mindset using practical, affordable coping skills to handle life's challenges.
Join MJ Murray Vachon, LCSW, a seasoned therapist with over 48,000 hours of therapy sessions and 31 years’ experience as a mental wellness educator as she guides you on a journey to reclaim your inner peace. Learn how to find contentment in the present moment, empowering you to handle the pressures of midlife with a confidence clarity that leads to calm.
Every Monday, MJ delves into the unique challenges of midlife, offering insights and concluding each episode with an "Inner Challenge"—simple, science-backed techniques designed to shift you from feeling overwhelmed to centered. Tune in every Thursday for a brief 5-10 minute "Inner Challenge Tune-Up," where MJ offers easy-to-follow tips to integrate these practices into your daily life.
Let’s evolve from crisis to calm and embrace the incredible journey of midlife. Tired of feeling overwhelmed? Tune into fan-favorite Ep. 63 for a boost! Let anxiety go and embrace your calm!
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 192
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep. 32: Mental Wellness and Cancer
Lyn and Jay Caponigro share with us how they are navigating their mental wellness during this last year since Jay's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. In listening to them we learn more about living th…
Ep. 31: Taking On The Mental Wellness Challenge!
In this episode, a listener takes on the Mental Wellness Challenge! For one week she observed her mind and applied what she learned in episode #30 to her everyday life. Wowza!! You will be impressed …
Ep. 30: Mental Wellness Defined: Reducing Anxiety and Embracing Calm in Midlife
What is Mental Wellness?? You kinda know, right? Wouldn't it be great to REALLY know? Join MJ for an encore performance of her initial episode where she gives you a practical and applicable way to R…
Ep. 29: Oh! What a Beautiful Morning...Routine!
This may have been a song from the cheesy movie, Oklahoma! but for many of us we aren't quite in tune with Curly McLain. (Google him if you are clueless). Join me in this episode as I talk with a neu…
Ep. 28: Selling and Mental Wellness!
Quotas, Economic Downturns and Demanding Consumers, Oh My! Sales is one of the backbones of the American economy. A career in sales can test one's Mental Wellness whether it's your school's candy sal…
Ep. 27: Procrastination!!
Don't put off listening to this episode on Procrastination! In this episode, a podcast listener takes on the role of guest to explore his problem with procrastination! You may be surprised (and relie…
Ep. 26: Coping Skills for Parents to Reduce Anxiety When Your Child Faces Mental Health Challenges
With so many children of all ages suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses, the impact this has on parents often goes unnoticed. As today's guest says, "No one thinks to bring ca…
Ep. 25: Animals and Mental Wellness
Puppies, kitties, and ponies melt our hearts and lift our Spirit. Join MJ as she talks with her sister Ann, an animal whisperer, to think about the role animals can have in cultivating mental wellnes…
Ep. 24: Visioning Mental Wellness
At 18 years old, Marcus Engel was hit by a drunk driver and became blind. Join MJ and Marcus as they discuss how Marcus has learned to cultivate mental wellness as well as become an expert in Compass…
Ep. 23: Adulting! Adulting! Adulting!
On today’s episode, MJ and her guest take on the topic of Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! As children we are given the impression that becoming an adult is an on/off switch. Something that automatical…
Ep. 22: Traveling the Road of Loss & Grief
Grief and Loss, while being a natural part of life, brings most of us face to face with many new and often uncomfortable feelings, situations and relationships. Grief not faced or processed easily di…
Ep. 21: Mental Wellness: Anxiety and the Immigration Journey: Practical Coping Skills
You must listen to this profound story of immigration that builds on the last episode of reaching across the divide. Turn down the current cultural message that can cause you to be suspicious of immi…
Ep. 20: Reaching Across the Divide
Our mental wellness depends on connection but what happens when we are divided with those with whom you live and love? Listen to live coaching session as this young man explores his path of living wi…
Ep. 19: Decreasing Anxiety with Meditation!
New Year. New Goals. New Pressure! Yep! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ explores with a D1 Athlete how he grew into handling the pressure. Be it on the field of life or football our mind i…
Ep. 18: Life's Wisdom for Kids from 1-92!
You are gonna LOVE this episode!! MJ talks with a 92 year old woman who shares her wisdom that will help point your New Year in the right direction! This amazing human helps us focus on what really h…
Ep. 17: Failure and Fa La La La
One week until Christmas and for most of us we are failing at what we had hoped to accomplish this holiday season. Fa La La La La La. In this episode MJ talks to a young woman not about her fa…
Ep. 16: Trim the Tree and Tend the Mind!
In this Season of Cheer a little Mind Tending goes along way! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ meets with a young man who explores what simple things he can do to give his mind a break from…
Ep. 15: Battling Comparison Head On!
In this live coaching session, MJ works with a college student who is courageous enough to battle comparison head on! Is comparison really a thief of joy or is it just a human reaction that we can a…
Ep. 14: Parenting Adult Children in Distress!
'Tis the Season! Welcome to Season 2 where the pod gets REAL! Live coaching each week! This week we anticipate the holidays where families gather to eat, drink and be merrry! Then real life gets in t…
Ep. 13: Are You Connected To Your Spirit?
We often think of Spirit as being the domain of religions or cheerleaders, but in this final episode of Season 1, MJ helps you to ponder the role your Spirit has in Mental Wellness. What lifts your…